Possession Quotes - Page 39

• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sexy, Men, Giving

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.37, Penguin

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• I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Blessing, Giving

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.231, Diversion Books

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• Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Marriage, Spirit, Entourage

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• When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Reflection, Hands

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Letting Go, Taken, Handshake

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• If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Wish

  Benjamin Franklin (2016). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.21, First Avenue Editions

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• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Past, Giving, Shadow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Communication, Writing

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

  Lloyd Jones

  Home, Loss, Imagination

  Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, People, Stories

  Emma Donoghue (2000). “Slammerkin”, p.361, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Heart, Humble

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1982). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”

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• Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

  Donald Miller

  Mean, Good Friend, Men

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.122, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

  Nora Roberts

  Memories, Nice, Play

  Nora Roberts (2013). “Partners”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

  Neal Shusterman

  Pain, Taken, Awful

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• Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cities, Walks, Streets

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.535, Macmillan

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• I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hands, Adam

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.172, Penguin

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• I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Happy Life, Intuition

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• …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

  Kate Chopin

  Powerful, Believe, Persistence

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• No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.99, RosettaBooks

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• Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

  Darynda Jones

  Voice, Long, Soul

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.74, Macmillan

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• How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Taken, Broken, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

  Laurie R. King

  Mean, Fire, Essence

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.441, Bantam

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• Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity." - Lady Taylor

  Julie Garwood

  Self, Important, Dignity

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